Thread: Job Story for 5.0

Phoenix actually changes colour after the add phase in the battle during the Final Coil of Bahamut. Once Phoenix finishes casting the "Rebirth" skill and enters the final phases of the fight, its blue feathers turn the red-orange. It's the latter colour in Unending Coil as well, but I'm not sure you can confidently point that "blue feather = tempered" when Louiphoenix still pounds away with us at full force in the actual canonical encounter of Final Coil as the red-gold Phoenix.

Originally Posted by Iscah

From memory, Phoenix changes colour after we defeat and un-temper it/him.

Originally Posted by Rocl

Phoenix actually changes colour after the add phase in the battle during the Final Coil of Bahamut. Once Phoenix finishes casting the "Rebirth" skill and enters the final phases of the fight, its blue feathers turn the red-orange. It's the latter colour in Unending Coil as well, but I'm not sure you can confidently point that "blue feather = tempered" when Louiphoenix still pounds away with us at full force in the actual canonical encounter of Final Coil as the red-gold Phoenix.

In fact, Phoenix changes BACK into red-blue after we beat him. The red-gold is just more of a 'high-powered' state if anything. And yes, according to Flames of Truth, he doesn't transform, but his aetherial shroud assumes a phoenix like shape before it bursts through Teraflare.

Originally Posted by Nalien

IDK, if I was an NPC, I'd be asking what Primal that's based on, where/when the WoL battled it.

I mean, the WoL doesn't have to have battled it. Just have been "exposed to its aether upon its death". That's the explanation as to how a SMN who has never done Coil is able to summon Demi-Bahamut - they were in Eorzea when the Calamity occurred.

Who else was present at the Calamity, and (apparently) died and dispersed its Aether afterwards? Phoenix!

Now, admittedly, there's apparently some strange amnesia shenanigans going around, and that's why no one mentions Phoenix, or is able to give any details as to what happened at the Calamity. So the conversation might go:

NPC: When did you fight Phoenix?
Me: I didn't. I was immersed in its Aether during the Calamity.
NPC: I don't remember Phoenix at the Calamity!
Me: I doubt you remember much of anything about the Calamity, just like anyone else.
NPC: So how do YOU know Phoenix was there?
Me: Echo.
NPC: ...oh, okay.